See honest in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"english": "‘I agree, indeed,’ said he, ‘but I must think\nAbout some respectable thing while I drink.’",
"ref": "late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Words of the Host to the Physician and the Pardoner, The Canterbury Tales, line 327-328",
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